May 31st, 2018
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Big Finish Class Volume 01
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
Three new adventures for the students of Coal Hill Academy, based on the television series created by Patrick Ness.
1.1 Gifted by Roy Gill
When a talent scout arrives in Shoreditch, Ram sees an opportunity to further his goals, whilst April strikes up a friendship with new boy, Thomas Laneford. Their choices draw all three to Carterhaugh House – but who is the mysterious Mab that waits for them there…?
1.2 Life Experience by Jenny T Colgan
After signing up for work experience at Sevelin Laboratories, Tanya and Ram find themselves thrust into the world of medical research. But dark secrets lie at the heart of Sevelin Industries – and not everyone can make it out alive…
1.3 Tell Me You Love Me by Scott Handcock
The school day has ended. Charlie and Matteusz find themselves alone – though not quite as alone as they first believed. Three little words could mean the difference between life and death… and Quill is the only person they can turn to.
THE CD BOX SET OF THIS RELEASE WILL BE LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.
Written By: Roy Gill, Jenny T Colgan, Scott Handcock
Directed By: Scott Handcock
Cast
Katherine Kelly (Miss Quill), Greg Austin (Charlie Smith), Fady Elsayed (Ram Singh), Sophie Hopkins (April MacLean), Vivian Oparah (Tanya Adeola), Jordan Renzo (Matteusz Andrzejewski), Rhys Isaac-Jones (Thomas Laneford), Deirdre Mullins (Mab), Lu Corfield (Marta Vanderburgh), Scott Haran (Jason Campbell), Joe Shire (Aubrey Khan), Jasmine M Stewart (The Mayor), Liz Sutherland-Lim (Alicia Yan), Gavin Swift (Boris). Other parts played by members of the cast.
Producer Scott Handcock
Script Editor Scott Handcock
Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
Categorised under: Big Finish, CD, spin-offs
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Anonymous
June 3rd, 2018 - 12:30amApparently when they were planning the storylines, it hadn’t been cancelled yet. Hence these are set during series 1.
Jack
June 8th, 2018 - 8:21amThese are actually set during Series 1 because Patrick Ness didn’t give permission for it to continue as Series 2. But they could have been planned before it was cancelled.
Anonymous
June 8th, 2018 - 12:18pmI think the thing about the reason being it not having been cancelled yet came from Nick Briggs on the Big Finish podcast itself?
But I suppose Ness would have been the one to refuse permission either way. Out of interest, where did you hear it?
Sean Bassett
June 1st, 2018 - 5:18pmSo great to see this series return via Big Finish. It deserved more recognition than it received. If only they’d made it Clara Oswald’s Class and set it during Series 8, then the series might have been a success.
Anonymous
June 2nd, 2018 - 2:14amJenna Coleman would not have done a BBC 3 series over the chance to be ‘Victoria’ any day.
The Outcast
June 2nd, 2018 - 3:13amYeah, Anonymous is right, that certainly wouldn’t have happened.
FUN FACT: According to what I’ve heard (this could be false) there were originally two main ideas for what the Class spin-off was going to be. The first was what we got, a bunch of kids in a school fighting monsters. The second idea was a Clara and Ashildr spin-off. Obviously, they realised that the second option would be nigh impossible to organise though, so went with the first.
Sean Bassett
June 2nd, 2018 - 5:29pm@Anonymous Then they should have introduced the Class characters in a Series 9 episode, as a backdoor pilot for the spin-off. Miss Quill could have been the mayor of the trap street instead of Ashildr perhaps, or maybe a couple of the students could have appeared during the school scenes at the beginning of The Magician’s Apprentice.
Anonymous
June 3rd, 2018 - 1:52pmGreat idea, I would have rather had that as a an episode in series 9 instead of sleep no more,
Anonymous
June 1st, 2018 - 4:34pmLook, I liked Class
It was ok
The first two episodes were good
I honestly have no idea how these will fit into the show
Every episode led into each other
But I will be buying
I hope for a continuation
TheBEAST
May 31st, 2018 - 5:24pmBlinking Nora! BF will milk anything for a couple of quid!!
Dominic
May 31st, 2018 - 1:38pmIs this going to resolve the cliffhangers Class ended on?
booboo
May 31st, 2018 - 1:39pmI dont think so its within the Tv series
Anonymous
May 31st, 2018 - 9:48amBig Finish to the rescue again. I do wonder how popular these will be though – I really struggled with this show but I am going to be diplomatic and put that down to me being an older fan. The show was obviously aimed at the YA market so I am curious how popular it was amongst that set of fans.
Oddly enough, I had no problem with SJA even though it was aimed at the CBBC market – in fact it was a great show. I also really struggled with Torchwood too – too many adult jokes etc. Probably says more about me than the shows but I do think that Class and Torchwood suffered from poor production but thats one thing that Big Finish will be able to improve on.
booboo
May 31st, 2018 - 10:07amI actually enjoyed much of it but it got a bit repetitive
I see Class as a failed experiment to be honest
SJA was brilliant from start to finish for me, I feel Torchwood fell part after Children of Earth
Anonymous
May 31st, 2018 - 6:26pmI recently rewatched Miracle Day… It is surprisingly good after not watching it for a couple years.
Colin
June 1st, 2018 - 9:05amI re watched miracle day to recently and totally agree..it’s much better than i remembered it to be
Anonymous
May 31st, 2018 - 9:42amWhy only 500? To see if they sell well?
David
May 31st, 2018 - 9:57amI imagine most of the audience for this release will be people who download only. It’s a more common medium than CD, especially with the younger demographic. And we all know how its getting more and more expensive to produce the CDs so makes perfect sense!
VeryFactualDalek
May 31st, 2018 - 7:26pmI assume a bit of to see how well it sells,most of the fans not having actual jobs and it not being something lots of people will buy a physical copy off
Anonymous
May 31st, 2018 - 8:20pmPerhaps people are starting to run out of room for all these releases…